😂😂😂

you know that kid had... a grandfather? right?

ia re garam blaming arlen being unfair but i can understand the bitterness she must be holding, and for so many years...

Louise clearly felt ashamed of her position the whole time, and i agree that it probably reflected later in her brief experience of motherhood. I also think that the fact that Louis took so good care for them, and developped such affection for them, made her feel like a very pale version of parenting in comparison. But i don’t think it has anything to do with the traditional aspect of motherhood among high born women (i personally think that this is a really, really old way of thinking that absolutely needs to be updated, people hid themselves behind infant mortality and the ‘don’t apply the standards of your time to theirs’ philosophy for way too long). To me, the rejection of her children is linked to the rejection of her public role. By being the mistress of Louis, the King, a married man, and by bearing the said married man several children, it was as if she appropriated the position of his wife, the Queen. She did not have the guts to fit in Versailles, certainly not as an official mistress, especially if you add that she had no one to support her nor have her back. She felt overwhelmed, which is understandable, but her rejection affected her son and probably her daughter too, and i think that was up to her to make it work, she just didn’t want to. 

AND IT LOOKS SO GOOD?

I never said that it was real, only rumored. And if you see Henry as a ‘sociopathic horror’, well, i guess he was complicated enough to leave behind several assumptions on his real personality, but that’s not the way i picture him, nor his relationship with Francis. Depends of people i guess?